“Hey, listen to this, Heather! I’ve found something of a mystery in the area we’re going to. You’re an archaeologist; this will interest you. What do you know about horse figures?”
“You mean white horses carved into the hillside exposing the chalk below? Well, there are fourteen of them in England. They’re called geoglyphs, and the oldest is near us in Oxfordshire.”
geoglyphs,“The one at Uffington? How old is it?”
“It’s Iron Age, about 3000 years. But what’s this got to do with your mystery around here?”
“Are there any Saxon horses to your knowledge?”
“Not as far as I know because the Saxons didn’t worship the horse. Woden had an eight-legged steed called Sleipnir, but that’s about it.”
“I’m asking because in Warwickshire there used to be a red horse. In fact, it gave its name to the
